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Monday, April 4, 2011

I took an online quiz which tests nine types of thinking styles. My results: Intrapersonal Thinker. Spend a lot of time thinking about and trying to understand themselves. Reflect on their thoughts and moods, and work to improve them. You understand how your behaviour affects your relationships with others. Other Intrapersonal thinkers include Sigmund Freud, Gandhi, Grahame Greene Careers which suit Intrapersonal Thinkers include Psychologist, Teacher, Pilot, Child Care worker, Explorer, Drama therapist. My purpose for taking the quiz was to see how my thinking style relates to learning karate. There is an area of my training I want to improve. I don't "see" things the same way some of my training partners do. They are engineers and craftsmen and would probably be considered logical-mathematical thinkers. What is your thinking style? How does your thinking style impact your martial arts study?

Hi Michele, I'm also an intrapersonal thinker. It's interesting that many of us are coming up with that answer. Two possible conclusions: 1)intrapersonal thinkers are drawn to budo because of the introspective path of self discovery and self improvement it leads you down or 2)intrapersonal thinkers are interested in the quiz because it helps them learn something about themselves.

I have been working on bunkai. My training partners, who are engineers/craftsmen, seem to have no trouble. I asked them how they learned to be good at bunkai. One response..."I don't know. It is how I think". It was this response which led me to the online quiz.

I am going to ask my training partners to take the quiz. I wonder if they will be Kinaesthic Thinkers (think in movements) or Logical-Math Thinkers (understand patterns and relationships between objects or actions).

Turns out I am a linguistic thinker. The quiz describes it as tending to think in words, using language to express complex ideas and being sensitive to the sounds and rhythms of words as well as their meanings. Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath and Anne Frank were linguistic thinkers, too. Writers and journal-keepers all - surprise surprise.

Like you, I sometimes don't see things like my training partners do. My sensei and the seipai are engineers by trade. The seipai tends to over-analyze things sometimes and gets chided for not thinking outside the box, go figure. We also have a math teacher who is a very visual learner. But show her something once and she gets it immediately...

This was interesting, though. Must pass it along to my training partners as well. Thanks for posting it :-)

Logical-Mathematical thinkers - Likes to understand patterns and relationships between objects or actionsTry to understand the world in terms of causes and effects Are good at thinking critically, and solving problems creatively

I'm a rock solid interpersonal. Interestingly, I found myself wondering if my desire to understand others, which came through in the quiz, is born from desire or necessity, due to my line of work. Either way, that was fun. Thanks.

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A practitioner of the Martial Arts for 22 years, I am a student and instructor of Okinawa Kenpo Karate and Kobudo. In April 2007, I injured my knee during a two-person bo form. I had a complete ACL tear. On May 15, 2007, I had my ACL reconstructed using a hamstring graft. This blog shares my thoughts on Karate, Tai Chi, ACL Reconstruction and the Challenges of Parenting.